Hey Braden,
thanks for your feedback!
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 09:02:36PM +0200, Braden Aran wrote:
Hi,
it seems the A.L.F.R.E.D. component and his vis is getting released soon http://git.open-mesh.org/alfred.git/commit/fac591b6d8a8a9eaca33a0d7614433cbc...
Actually, alfred was just release a couple of hours ago, although the announcement is to come soon after.
But where are the man pages? Don't you think it would be nice for people when they can read how it is used in a standard unix way? At least they need to use it because this functionality is removed in batman-adv soon. http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/2013-07-29-batman-adv-2013-...
There is quite a lot of information in the README to get going, but yes, a manpage would be great. If there is anyone who could contribute one, I would be very happy, if not I'll write one myself prior to the next release.
I can't find the manpages for both binaries in the tarball http://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/stable/sources/alfred/alfred-2013.3.0....
There won't be one for now. Please stick to the README for now.
And isn't the name vis potentially problematic and bad named after all? "vis" doesn't tell anyone about the connection to batman-adv and it sounds more like a GUI program to visualize stuff (mathematical equations?). And it clashes directly with the vis of batmand. So I cannot install both on the same system in a unix manner.
I don't know if it sounds like a GUI program, we have used that name for years in the various iterations and no complaints so far. The clash with the old batmand-vis is true however. I'm not sure if anyone still uses that, but I'm open to suggestions how to handle that.
Is there anyone using the old vis? I'd appreciate any ideas, discussions, comments. :)
Cheers, Simon